A shocking 94% of California teenagers and young adults report experiencing “mental health challenges” in an average month, according to a new poll commissioned by Blue Shield of California’s Blue Sky “youth mental health initiative.”
When asked, “How is your mental health today,” almost half of the youth in Los Angeles reported that it was “fair” or “poor.” Statewide, almost a third said the same, with the numbers getting worse over time.
The polling results correspond with the latest Centers for Disease Control data showing 40% of youth feel “persistent sadness or hopelessness.” Even more shocking, the national survey found 20% seriously considered attempting suicide. Almost 10% actually attempted suicide, just over the past year.
These record levels of mental issues among young Americans come even as government at all levels and public schools roll out more “mental health” and “social-emotional learning” schemes than ever before. Some critics suggest there is a link.
Under the guise of dealing with what self-styled experts are calling an unprecedented mental health “crisis,” Big Pharma-funded policymakers are working to make dangerous psychotropic drugs more widely available to young people.
As The Newman Report exposed last year, an official “mental health app” backed by the state of California is targeting vulnerable children with controversial propaganda involving the occult, the New Age, homosexuality, transgenderism, and fornication.
With God and the Bible increasingly sidelined, much of the angst being felt by youth in the Golden State is due to confusion. In fact, indoctrination and propaganda in government schools and so-called “social media” are key.
According to the poll, 85% of youngsters pointed to “gun violence” as a major stressor contributing to the supposed mental-health challenges. Nearly 80% cited concerns about alleged man-made “climate change.”
The constant race-mongering and “LGBTQ+” propaganda are also taking a toll, with almost 80% reporting concerns about “racism” and nearly 70% pointing to “discrimination against LGBTQ+ people.” Concerns about supposed discrimination against immigrants were even more stressful to the state’s increasingly indoctrinated young people, with over 80% calling it a “stressor.”
No doubt responding to establishment efforts to promote and normalize censorship, some 84% of youth are concerned about the negative impact of “misinformation” online. Virtually all of the young people — 97% — reported using social media for “fun and entertainment.”
“The data shows youth are deeply affected by the world around them, from climate anxiety and safety to social media pressures,” argued Dr. Nicole Stelter, director of Behavioral Health at Blue Shield of California. “Young people are concerned about the future and how we treat one another.”
Blue Shield’s Blue Sky initiative chief Paula Ambrose suggested that ever-larger quantities of young people must obtain “professional mental health support.” Apparently, “stigma” is holding some back, and so visiting “professionals” must be promoted and normalized.
The Blue Shield survey was conducted by an outfit called “Children Now,” described as a “leading nonpartisan, California-based research and policy organization.” It was conducted last year and polled some 750 California residents between the ages of 14 and 25.
In Illinois, lawmakers recently approved universal “mental health” screening for all children in government schools. Critics from across the political spectrum and even psychiatrists slammed the move.
Harvard-trained psychiatrist Dr. Peter Breggin blasted screening all students and normalizing the idea of ubiquitous “mental health” issues among children while peddling drugs.
“The idea of screening school children for mental problems is equivalent to screening them for the drug market,” Breggin explained. “This will stigmatize increasing numbers of children, lead many of them to taking dangerous psychiatric drugs, and push some into a lifetime ‘career’ as mental patients.”
“Nothing is worse than telling a child they have a mental problem, first because it demoralizes them, and second because the problem, if there is one, is corrected by improving how we relate to them,” he added.
The Illinois legislature, where almost 90% of politicians’ campaigns are funded by Big Pharma, is also working on bills to mandate “mental health education” and more “social-emotional learning” for students in government schools.
A peer-reviewed study by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that “youth suicides are closely tied with in-person school attendance.” When school is out for summer, the number of suicides among students plummets, before skyrocketing again when school begins.
When the Bible, prayer, close-knit family, and biblical education were the norm, there was no “mental health” crisis among children. This is all a modern phenomenon.
What the youth need is not “climate” hysteria, gender-bending indoctrination, endless “race” mongering, or even more “mental health” schemes at their government school. What they really need is Truth and love.